Thank you so much for this video! It finally sold me on the add-on after I was trying to convince myself I didn't need it before haha I don't like to rely too heavily on generated content for hero assets in my projects, mostly for dumb egotistical reasons probably, but the tools here look amazing for easily generating instances of anything I make with extremely fine control. And... the included content looks really darn neat and better than any greeble I've ever made lol, so I might cave on that too. Thank you again.
This is amazing, I've been playing around with the free version for a while and the possibilities are endless. Really thinking about buying the full pack, great job guys!
It's $18.50 USD right now, quite the bargain. I literally bought it the second day it came out and I love it. So get it now if you can because I'm sure that the price will go up. Be blessed.
Haven't watched this video yet...just bought it as I am SO damn impressed with the Free Version, a purchase is a "no-brainer"...thanks from an old bloke in N. Ireland!
@@ChippWalters Yes, thank you. I bought both the Kitops and Simple SCIFI. Thank you for your hard work. I will let you know how it went with migrating Geo to Unreal Engine. I do a lot of UE Space Content and really needed a quick way to output Space Ships/Stations and your tools might just do it for me.
Hey Chipp and gang, it's totally mind-blowing what you guys created and so much fun and damn satisfying to work with. I have a slight problem though, i purchase the pro version a little over a week ago and downloaded the new Flex add-on yesterday, I grabbed everything that's available on the download page but I'm missing all the Greezy Bear hero elements. Any ideas what went wrong? Thank you and you guys are freaking rock stars!
Is there a "scale indicator"? I mean, from Street level with huge buildings in the background to small circuitry or city skylines seen from orbit *cough*Arcorp*cough*Lorville*cough Speaking of Lorville and its revamp coming this Spring (or whenever the 3.19 is released), would it be possible to create something like that with Flex? (see it here: ruclips.net/video/c3z9C-VuEgQ/видео.html)
No, there's not an absolute scale feature, but you can place existing objects that you know the scale of two in your scene and then use those to help eyeball your scale.
Hello, I just purchased this tool and got familar with it. BUT I use to merge different stuff in keyshot 11. I got the blender to keyshot bridge. But when I transfere this to keyshot, the faces stay empts. I got 5 entries for "plane", but all are empty. I need to get this into keyshot! Any idea what I missed? Maybe i need to "apply" somethin before this mesh is "realy created"? I am despred and need your help. This tool would bring my work to some new levels and I already payed for it. So what can I do to export this to use it in a different render tool? If it is "bender bonded" only, I cannot use it!
Ok, so - sorry, I'm new and excited and kind of confused. This is separate from Kit-Ops Pro, right? I need to figure out what all I need for an "I want it all" cart.
"How cool is that?"..... very cool !! Great job! You are too good to us mr Walters. Not complaining tho. No way. I've just recently bought the pro version of this add on, so I'm really looking forward to having a little 'play' with this. Thanks very much chipp 👍👍
I have the latest version 1.2 from Gumroad and have downloaded and re-downloaded any files there, but I am not seeing the new K-Packs mentioned at 4:19 - any tips? I only have Top and Bottom Level Greebles and Simple SciFi Props...
Panel-Y ist not working on my Maschine with Blender 3.01 and Blender 3.1.2. Blender crashes without any comment. 😞 Panel-X is no Problem an is working fine. 🙂 Any idea?
it just get crushed when i choose panel-y at scifi flex add on :( is there any way to fix this? +) and i also unzip the addon zip file, panel-y blend file doesn't work. when i open the blend file it just get crushed and not opened 😢😢
this is a kitops issue, you can disable kitops and it will bypass the problem. there will be a kitops update soon. if you reach out on discord I can give you a link early
hey Chipp, sorry to bother you with this. But I just started working with Blender almost 2 weeks ago, and so I have both Sci Fi Flex and Kit Ops 2 installed. In a video I saw that Sci Fi Flex's materials could be cycled through via Kit Ops. But I don't understand how this is done. Also in Rendered mode for some reason things are overly green, and I'm at a loss on how to fix this. Do you know any possible way to help me with these 2 things?
@@ChippWalters Thanks Chipp i was reffering to how even the thick Top panels meshes would just be flat turns out i did not know that these only work with planes , i was trying it out with a cubes face, but on planes they work fine.
Hey Chipp! When I want to load PANEL-Y, Blender always crashes. Everything else works perfectly. Do you have any idea what the problem might be? Im using blender 3.0, 32 GiB RAM, 6 GiB VRAM thanks :)
Hi. I love sci flex. One question though. At the time I only have the free kit ops. Can I still get those two spacemen and how? I'm not sure if I have to upload anything or not.
Fast, easy and simple. Interesting: how long will it take to create this with "your" hands? At least the scene at 0:42 . *Chipp Walters, Thank You =)!*
No idea as I didn't make that scene. But to populate it takes only a matter of seconds. To add the mist and lighting, see my tutorial at ruclips.net/video/LP5AI_RB7a0/видео.html
Hey chipp walters, i downloaded the flex file from blender market and it has 4 blender files align generator, geo generator mesh and panel generator. How do i turn on the file with the sci fi flex in the top right of the viewport as in the video. thanks .
Hi Chip, i bought Kit ops pro, design magic and simple sifi, where i can find or how i can install these yellow icon assets like bot lvl greebels, City heroes ect? i installed everything i downloaded and still cannot find it... probably missed something :)
@@AnthonyAragues Thanks Anthony. I wasn't sure if it was a bug in blender, or with flex. Not sure how to get to Discord, is there a link on blender market?
Out of curiosity, will you be adding the new packs and other stuff with the paid version? Or will they be separate from the paid version (just wondering cos I have the paid version).
@@ChippWalters yes, I was asking if the new packs that you add though, not including flex, will they 1. be added to the the paid version and the free version 2. Be added to Just the Paid Version or 3. Will they be separate from both version and we have to buy them, I have the paid version btw
That's really the cherry on top! Thanks for making this 🦾 I have just one question, are you planning to make a low poly version of the DPACKS in the future? The only issue I faced so far is that even with a 3090 the viewport is super slow. Thanks again anyway!
Hi Marco. I'm pretty sure most of the DPACKS are fairly low poly. If you're getting a lot of slow down it might not be about the 3090, it might be because of your cpu? One technique we use a lot is we will propagate one set of faces and then hide them and then propagate another set of faces and then hide them. And we keep doing this until we have the whole scene populated and they we'll render.
@@ChippWalters Thanks, I'm gonna try this! By the way I just forgot to specify that the "issue" (it's not really an issue after all) it's just in solid view so probably your suggestion will fix this completely. Thank you again, it's really one of the best addons ever!
definitely not, it's a distinct product and has new thingsin the works I get to see. I'll leave official announcements to Chipp. The synth stuff gets more complex and algorithmic with intentional placement (Recipes) it's a different way of doing things. There will be SOME overlap in how people want to apply it. The synth addon code is pretty impressive TBH. Be assured tho it has features coming that are not achievable with a geometry nodes workflow yet
No! Absolutely not! We're in the middle of a large overhaul. SYNTH will generate a lot more controlled and more exact types of designs. We have a new feature called hardpoints where we can automatically create objects that snap together like Legos in KIT OPS and we can use SYNTH to propagate those hard point INSERTS easily. Think of creating Mechs and vehicles and robots and workstations and all sorts of neat products that have organization to them. We're also developing a free version of SYNTH that can execute recipes so you can just purchase a recipe and run it however you like without ever having to buy SYNTH.
That's insane! … in a good way. 😉 Really impressive. 👍
Really tempting to check out. Great video.
Thank you so much for this video! It finally sold me on the add-on after I was trying to convince myself I didn't need it before haha
I don't like to rely too heavily on generated content for hero assets in my projects, mostly for dumb egotistical reasons probably, but the tools here look amazing for easily generating instances of anything I make with extremely fine control.
And... the included content looks really darn neat and better than any greeble I've ever made lol, so I might cave on that too.
Thank you again.
This video is well put together and very informative, another awesome job Chipp !!
Man am I glad I already got this
6 minutes and 43 seconds in to this video I put it on pause and bought this on Blender Market. I can't wait to try this!!
This is amazing, I've been playing around with the free version for a while and the possibilities are endless. Really thinking about buying the full pack, great job guys!
It's $18.50 USD right now, quite the bargain. I literally bought it the second day it came out and I love it. So get it now if you can because I'm sure that the price will go up. Be blessed.
I'd get it as soon as, because the price will be going up as they add new updates!
@@sresto I just bought it :D
@@DragonCrimes 👍
I just bought this add-on on Friday. I will say the Pro version is the best investment yet and worth the price of admission.
Haven't watched this video yet...just bought it as I am SO damn impressed with the Free Version, a purchase is a "no-brainer"...thanks from an old bloke in N. Ireland!
Got Kit Opps2 and Scifi flex from Blender Market just now after watching your video!!
Excellent work Chipp...
Super great prices as well
Thanks, Corey. Much appreciated!
How do you save the Geo Node into a Mesh that retains it's UVs and Vertex Color for each individual piece?
I believe I answered your question at my discord
@@ChippWalters Yes, thank you. I bought both the Kitops and Simple SCIFI. Thank you for your hard work. I will let you know how it went with migrating Geo to Unreal Engine.
I do a lot of UE Space Content and really needed a quick way to output Space Ships/Stations and your tools might just do it for me.
Hey Chipp and gang, it's totally mind-blowing what you guys created and so much fun and damn satisfying to work with. I have a slight problem though, i purchase the pro version a little over a week ago and downloaded the new Flex add-on yesterday, I grabbed everything that's available on the download page but I'm missing all the Greezy Bear hero elements. Any ideas what went wrong? Thank you and you guys are freaking rock stars!
thanks for the kind words. See the readme.txt file
@@ChippWalters That's it, found it all, thank you very much! I hope you guys prosper, you deserve it.
whaaat? ... who's buying this - thumbs up!
Is there a "scale indicator"? I mean, from Street level with huge buildings in the background to small circuitry or city skylines seen from orbit *cough*Arcorp*cough*Lorville*cough
Speaking of Lorville and its revamp coming this Spring (or whenever the 3.19 is released), would it be possible to create something like that with Flex? (see it here: ruclips.net/video/c3z9C-VuEgQ/видео.html)
No, there's not an absolute scale feature, but you can place existing objects that you know the scale of two in your scene and then use those to help eyeball your scale.
Hello,
I just purchased this tool and got familar with it. BUT I use to merge different stuff in keyshot 11. I got the blender to keyshot bridge. But when I transfere this to keyshot, the faces stay empts. I got 5 entries for "plane", but all are empty. I need to get this into keyshot! Any idea what I missed? Maybe i need to "apply" somethin before this mesh is "realy created"? I am despred and need your help. This tool would bring my work to some new levels and I already payed for it. So what can I do to export this to use it in a different render tool? If it is "bender bonded" only, I cannot use it!
Bake textures
Now shut up and take my effing money 😂
BRO THIS IS ONLY 18 BUCKS? HOLY @#$%
Ok, so - sorry, I'm new and excited and kind of confused. This is separate from Kit-Ops Pro, right? I need to figure out what all I need for an "I want it all" cart.
thi is a completely different product than kitops
amazing, absolutely sensational.
Stupid question perhaps, but Is the geometry fully editable after you have generated something?
You can make it that way, check the docs
I just bought this. Am planning on making a short film, do I need permission to use a city I put together with this software in my short film?
No. Just use it and enjoy! cw1.me/license
Incredible as always Chip!
I recently purchased Simple SciFi Pro, the video says this addon is free to those who already own it, how do I find the free update version?
re-download fromt he same place you got it last time
Hi chip..
Where can I find the human in kit ops.. Or how can I install them?
It's on my $1 Patreon. Or if you're asking about the sci Fi character, then look in ther readme.txt file of SIMPLE SCIFI PRO+FLEX
"How cool is that?"..... very cool !!
Great job! You are too good to us mr Walters. Not complaining tho. No way.
I've just recently bought the pro version of this add on, so I'm really looking forward to having a little 'play' with this.
Thanks very much chipp 👍👍
I have the latest version 1.2 from Gumroad and have downloaded and re-downloaded any files there, but I am not seeing the new K-Packs mentioned at 4:19 - any tips? I only have Top and Bottom Level Greebles and Simple SciFi Props...
Are you using pro?
@@ChippWalters yes sir!
Panel-Y ist not working on my Maschine with Blender 3.01 and Blender 3.1.2. Blender crashes without any comment. 😞 Panel-X is no Problem an is working fine. 🙂
Any idea?
Please visit us at cw1.me/discord and make sure you have the latest version on KIT OPS
@@ChippWalters Aha, that i will try. I have an older Version of KitOps. Thank you man! ❤
This is simply amazing
Amazinggggg
Chipp, I found it it wasn't ease but I never give up, it is awesome flex add on.
it just get crushed when i choose panel-y at scifi flex add on :(
is there any way to fix this?
+) and i also unzip the addon zip file, panel-y blend file doesn't work.
when i open the blend file it just get crushed and not opened 😢😢
this is a kitops issue, you can disable kitops and it will bypass the problem. there will be a kitops update soon. if you reach out on discord I can give you a link early
Contact us for a new version of KIT OPS (or turn off off). Make sure you're using Blender 3.0. Check out cw1.me/discord
@@ChippWalters thx for answer! i just turned off kit ops for now and panel-y works. i'm gonna wait for the update.
hey Chipp, sorry to bother you with this. But I just started working with Blender almost 2 weeks ago, and so I have both Sci Fi Flex and Kit Ops 2 installed. In a video I saw that Sci Fi Flex's materials could be cycled through via Kit Ops. But I don't understand how this is done. Also in Rendered mode for some reason things are overly green, and I'm at a loss on how to fix this. Do you know any possible way to help me with these 2 things?
Contact us at cw1.me/discord and we can help
Why the number of faces won't change? I noticed that in various part of the video.
come talk with us in Discord and it'll be easier to look at what you are talking about
@@AnthonyAragues Well, I am there but I do not have permission to post anything including asking question or discuss/comment.
my Y- panel do not extrude or change size like in your video, when i increase size they get bigger but are flat. what could be causing this?
Y panels are flat by design. There are two different the top and the bottom so you might want to try using the top as that one's not as flat.
@@ChippWalters Thanks Chipp i was reffering to how even the thick Top panels meshes would just be flat turns out i did not know that these only work with planes , i was trying it out with a cubes face, but on planes they work fine.
Hey Chipp!
When I want to load PANEL-Y, Blender always crashes. Everything else works perfectly.
Do you have any idea what the problem might be?
Im using blender 3.0, 32 GiB RAM, 6 GiB VRAM
thanks :)
Please use www.dropbox.com/s/gzb2uqulp52j44q/kitops-free-2.20.57-beta.zip?dl=0
@@ChippWalters works perfectly!
thank you, Sir!
Hi. I love sci flex. One question though. At the time I only have the free kit ops. Can I still get those two spacemen and how? I'm not sure if I have to upload anything or not.
Store it works with free. Check out the readme.txt
Really awesome work. But my flex addon seems to still crash when i want to upload the y panel pack. Even after the update:( any fixes?
Get the new KIT OPS
Can the results be exported to game engines
Yes. See the docs.
Can it all be baked out for game engines?
You can bake out the Geo, but you'll have to convert the shader.
Awesome
Awesome! Keeps on giving! Well worth the money for the Pro version!
Fast, easy and simple. Interesting: how long will it take to create this with "your" hands? At least the scene at 0:42 . *Chipp Walters, Thank You =)!*
No idea as I didn't make that scene. But to populate it takes only a matter of seconds. To add the mist and lighting, see my tutorial at ruclips.net/video/LP5AI_RB7a0/видео.html
Hey chipp walters, i downloaded the flex file from blender market and it has 4 blender files align generator, geo generator mesh and panel generator. How do i turn on the file with the sci fi flex in the top right of the viewport as in the video. thanks .
must install it as an addon
why cant i apply the modifier?
See the documentation on how to apply modifiers. cw1.me/simplescifi
Awesome. Great update. Thank you.
Hi Chip, i bought Kit ops pro, design magic and simple sifi, where i can find or how i can install these yellow icon assets like bot lvl greebels, City heroes ect? i installed everything i downloaded and still cannot find it... probably missed something :)
there's a "masterfolder" in the downloads that has the kpacks
@@AnthonyAragues you're right :) i missed that... many thanks
Awesome update! Thank you!
Thank You
Chipp where are the New Kpacks?
Readme.txt
@@ChippWalters My bad Chipp I didn't click on it because I thought the readme TXT was old.
Fyi - Blender closes (crashes) immediately when ypanel with panel gen is applied using flex. Works fine with xpanel.
this was found, we have a fix in kitops, come to Discord and I'll send you a link or wait for a kitops update to be out soon
@@AnthonyAragues Thanks Anthony. I wasn't sure if it was a bug in blender, or with flex. Not sure how to get to Discord, is there a link on blender market?
Bill. You can contact me at cw1.me/getsupport and I can help you out.
Very amazing ! Great job Chipp. How do we change the dpack materials already?
Thanks! Check out the documentation.
@@ChippWalters right, i've just forgot to slide the material preview on the geometry modifier 🤦♂
Hi Chipp, those Kpaks in kitops except for the characters is it with the scifi flex or its different kpaks
everything in the video is included with scifi pro/flex, you need kitops to use kpacks of course
Most of it comes with SCIFI FLEX, some is from other KPACKS.
Out of curiosity, will you be adding the new packs and other stuff with the paid version? Or will they be separate from the paid version (just wondering cos I have the paid version).
included new packs for existing pro users
FLEX is a free update for Pro users.
@@ChippWalters yes, I was asking if the new packs that you add though, not including flex, will they
1. be added to the the paid version and the free version
2. Be added to Just the Paid Version or
3. Will they be separate from both version and we have to buy them,
I have the paid version btw
@@crystellik The are part of the paid version
@@ChippWalters glad to hear, thank you very much sir
That's really the cherry on top! Thanks for making this 🦾
I have just one question, are you planning to make a low poly version of the DPACKS in the future? The only issue I faced so far is that even with a 3090 the viewport is super slow.
Thanks again anyway!
Hi Marco. I'm pretty sure most of the DPACKS are fairly low poly. If you're getting a lot of slow down it might not be about the 3090, it might be because of your cpu? One technique we use a lot is we will propagate one set of faces and then hide them and then propagate another set of faces and then hide them. And we keep doing this until we have the whole scene populated and they we'll render.
@@ChippWalters Thanks, I'm gonna try this!
By the way I just forgot to specify that the "issue" (it's not really an issue after all) it's just in solid view so probably your suggestion will fix this completely.
Thank you again, it's really one of the best addons ever!
HI MARCO JUST SAW YOU HERE AND WANTED TO SAY HI HAHAHHA
@@idollxx ahahahaha ooh hey! I was like what wait a minute 🤍😂
are there a obvious way to get this in to Unreal that I dont know?
Yeah you can export the geometry as obj after converting the instances.
@@ChippWalters oh, so no FBX? obj. for the win! thanks for this amazing addon
@@henrikekholm6437 Sure, Blender can export FBX as well.
@@ChippWalters I have my prob
lems...
so synth is abandoned i guess
definitely not, it's a distinct product and has new thingsin the works I get to see. I'll leave official announcements to Chipp. The synth stuff gets more complex and algorithmic with intentional placement (Recipes) it's a different way of doing things. There will be SOME overlap in how people want to apply it. The synth addon code is pretty impressive TBH. Be assured tho it has features coming that are not achievable with a geometry nodes workflow yet
No! Absolutely not! We're in the middle of a large overhaul. SYNTH will generate a lot more controlled and more exact types of designs. We have a new feature called hardpoints where we can automatically create objects that snap together like Legos in KIT OPS and we can use SYNTH to propagate those hard point INSERTS easily. Think of creating Mechs and vehicles and robots and workstations and all sorts of neat products that have organization to them. We're also developing a free version of SYNTH that can execute recipes so you can just purchase a recipe and run it however you like without ever having to buy SYNTH.
@@ChippWalters its based on Geo Node ?
ok, i wanted buy it last year, but now i m doing it for real.
Thank You and your friends, for your work!
P.S.: I have bought it earlier, on Gumroad.
Then go get your free update!
Out of curiosity, if we've already bought the pro version, do we get the flex addon for free or no?
Absolutely, the flex version is a free update for Pro users.
yes, just download the new version from where you bought it
@@ChippWalters Perfect, looking forward to testing it out. Great add-on, probably one of the best I've ever used for Blender.